Randy Souther
@tinmachine.bsky.social
Cancelled Librarian Redux.
Open Inquiry, Viewpoint Diversity, Constructive Disagreement.
Open Inquiry, Viewpoint Diversity, Constructive Disagreement.
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social s new novel published June 17: FOX. “Menacing, mesmerizing, and thoroughly provocative. —Booklist. celestialtimepiece.com/2025/06/10/f...
Fox: A Novel
Oates owns the realm of genre-fluid fiction that focuses on the physical and psychological vulnerabilities of young women. Her latest foray explores the disturbing and chilling milieu of pedophilia…
celestialtimepiece.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social s new novel published June 17: FOX. “Menacing, mesmerizing, and thoroughly provocative. —Booklist. celestialtimepiece.com/2025/06/10/f...
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EDMUND WHITE in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates
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open.substack.com/pub/joycecar...
EDMUND WHITE in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates
An interview with Edmund White
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June 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
EDMUND WHITE in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates
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open.substack.com/pub/joycecar...
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Criticism of the government and its agents is core protected speech.
After a protest over immigration raids, a Las Vegas officer took issue with a live streamer’s words — and had him bum-rushed, pinned, and arrested.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s unconstitutional retaliation.
After a protest over immigration raids, a Las Vegas officer took issue with a live streamer’s words — and had him bum-rushed, pinned, and arrested.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s unconstitutional retaliation.
June 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Criticism of the government and its agents is core protected speech.
After a protest over immigration raids, a Las Vegas officer took issue with a live streamer’s words — and had him bum-rushed, pinned, and arrested.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s unconstitutional retaliation.
After a protest over immigration raids, a Las Vegas officer took issue with a live streamer’s words — and had him bum-rushed, pinned, and arrested.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s unconstitutional retaliation.
Special issue of Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies: repository.usfca.edu/jcostudies/ @JoyceCarolOates
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Special issue of Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies: repository.usfca.edu/jcostudies/ @JoyceCarolOates
The Internet Archive home in San Francisco. @internetarchive
February 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Internet Archive home in San Francisco. @internetarchive
The world today …
December 9, 2024 at 1:35 AM
The world today …
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it may be purely objective but I have developed an aversion to online pieces that highlight race & racial differences in a way to, possibly inadvertently, further divide Americans. this fanaticism about skin color(s) must seem bizarre to some. yes, demographics; but--"facts" can mislead.
If you look at the article they are talking about demographics and “white” is part of the specific demographic they are discussing.
December 4, 2024 at 4:35 PM
it may be purely objective but I have developed an aversion to online pieces that highlight race & racial differences in a way to, possibly inadvertently, further divide Americans. this fanaticism about skin color(s) must seem bizarre to some. yes, demographics; but--"facts" can mislead.
“The battles within this new cold civil war … will be long and often intense, with uncertain outcomes but with the hope that we can, once again, renew the nation and trust in its epistemic institutions for the benefit of all.” Craig Gibson
hxlibraries.substack.com/p/to-think-a...
hxlibraries.substack.com/p/to-think-a...
December 3, 2024 at 7:32 PM
“The battles within this new cold civil war … will be long and often intense, with uncertain outcomes but with the hope that we can, once again, renew the nation and trust in its epistemic institutions for the benefit of all.” Craig Gibson
hxlibraries.substack.com/p/to-think-a...
hxlibraries.substack.com/p/to-think-a...
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published today in 1865. (Through the Looking Glass came later).
November 26, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published today in 1865. (Through the Looking Glass came later).
Just arrived at my library: Charlie’s Lab, (Neuroscientist Charlie Gross) by Michael S.A. Graziano. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Just arrived at my library: Charlie’s Lab, (Neuroscientist Charlie Gross) by Michael S.A. Graziano. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery & Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates. Feel-good stories for sunny people. Kidding. celestialtimepiece.com/2024/11/05/f...
Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
“The proximity of love and hate—or at least attraction and violence—animate most of the tales, each a compact gem of unease.”
celestialtimepiece.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:49 AM
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery & Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates. Feel-good stories for sunny people. Kidding. celestialtimepiece.com/2024/11/05/f...
While an “atmospheric river” overwhelms our coast, here’s a view from another time, possibly more comforting.
November 22, 2024 at 2:57 AM
While an “atmospheric river” overwhelms our coast, here’s a view from another time, possibly more comforting.
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One reviewer grumbled about the parentheses—(but we know that it’s inside the parenthesis that reality happens).
Right now I’m reading “48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a riveting novel that has the speed and density of a poem—I’m reminded of Dickinson’s poems—this novel has a similar distilled Gothic intensity, an epigrammatic mysticism, an obsessive tempo, and an unbridled Id—
November 21, 2024 at 7:29 PM
One reviewer grumbled about the parentheses—(but we know that it’s inside the parenthesis that reality happens).
Feeling pacific, but just for a moment …
November 20, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Feeling pacific, but just for a moment …